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This section covers two complementary datasets for tracing political influence in Canada. The LobbyCan registry provides 166K+ active and historical registrations and 354K+ communications between registered lobbyists and federal Designated Public Office Holders (DPOHs). Elections Canada reviewed contributions provide 6.2M+ political donation records spanning federal parties and candidates. Together they let you trace who is paying to access government and who is financially supporting which parties.

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What you can query

Lobbying Communications

Registrations

Political Contributions

Client Profile

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Common use cases

Investigative journalists tracing which companies are meeting with specific ministers or DPOHs; policy analysts identifying the subject matters most actively lobbied at a given federal institution; campaign finance researchers tracking contributions to a party across multiple election cycles; government relations teams benchmarking competitor lobbying activity by institution and subject area.
How lobbying and contributions connectA company can simultaneously appear in lobbying records (as a lobbying client) and in contribution records (if employees or executives donate to parties). The Cross-Dataset Search endpoint lets you query a company name across both datasets in a single request.